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Stephen Richard Lyster Clark is an English philosopher and professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Liverpool. Clark specialises in the philosophy of religion and animal rights, writing from a philosophical position that might broadly be described as Christian Platonist. He is the author of 19 books, including The Moral Status of Animals , The Nature of the Beast , Animals and Their Moral Standing , G.K. Chesterton , Philosophical Futures , and Ancient Mediterranean Philosophy , as well as 77 scholarly articles, and chapters in another 109 books. He is a former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Applied Philosophy . Wikipedia  

✵ 30. October 1945
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Stephen R. L. Clark Quotes

“It is plain that the present system of intensive farming cannot be defended. … Let us then be vegetarians, at least. For those who have recognized flesh-eating for what it is, the merest addiction, and one, as Shelley saw, to ‘kindle all putrid humours in (our) frame’ … for such moralists the step is easy. It is not necessary, rather it is incompetent, to kill and torture animals to eat.”

Stephen R. L. Clark

Source: The Moral Status of Animals, p. 46

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“Those who still eat flesh when they could do otherwise have no claim to be serious moralists.”

Stephen R. L. Clark

Source: The Moral Status of Animals, p. 47

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